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CVE-2013-7048

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-7048 describes a vulnerability in OpenStack Compute (Nova) Grizzly 2013.1.4, Havana 2013.2.1, and earlier versions, where the temporary directory for live snapshots has world-writable and world-readable permissions. This misconfiguration allows local users to read and modify sensitive live snapshot data. The vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 3.3, indicating a local attack vector with medium complexity and potential for partial confidentiality and integrity impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion beyond a single mention.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 2013.1, <= 2013.1.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:nova:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 2013.2, <= 2013.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:nova:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

3.3LOW

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.4
Impact Score
4.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.47%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
38.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0047 is in the 86th percentile among its peer group of 747 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: novaFixed in: 12.0.0a0
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: OpenStack 3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: openstack-nova-0:2013.1.5-2.el6ost
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: OpenStack 4 for RHEL 6Fixed in: openstack-nova-0:2013.2.2-2.el6ost
View patch

Vendor Advisories (2)

pipGHSA-grp5-h379-j75xlow

OpenStack Nova live snapshots use an insecure local directory

May 14, 2022
redhatCVE-2013-7048Moderate

Nova: insecure directory permissions in snapshots

Sep 18, 2013

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-0231.html
Third Party Advisory
bugs.launchpad.net / nova/+bug/1227027
ExploitPatchThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/01/13/2
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory